The Musically shapeshifting genius that is Miles Davis

For my corpus I have decided to investigate the jazz trumpet player Miles Davis. Davis is known within the jazz and global community as a constant innovator and key figure of jazz music. His method for innovation was to constantly attract upcoming talents and stars within the upcoming current in jazz. He then instructed these youngsters with his own vision of jazz and this was reciprocated by the youngsters how provided him with their own new views.

In my corpus I will try to analyse Davis’ music by answering some of the following questions:

• How did Davis’ music change over time, what are the constants in his music and what are the variables?

• How did Davis’ music reflect other albums of each specific time period that he was adapting to?

The following phases of Miles Davis’ oeuvre could be examined

• Early bebop/Charlie Parker phase: 1945-1950

• Hard Bop phase: 1950-1955

• Miles Davis Cool Phase: 1955-1963

• Miles Davis Acoustic Erratic: 1963-1968

• Miles Davis electric/funk fusion: 1968-1975

• Miles Davis Hiatus: 1975-1980

• Miles Davis final years: 1980-1992

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Miles transformations are visible in data from Spotify

Miles in terms of Valence, Danceability and energy